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and which was to be our diet (it is not an unpleafant one, at 
leaft a part of it) till we reached Emfras. 
AT eight in the morning I pafled through Tangouri, a 
confiderable village. About a hundred yards on the right 
from this we have a finer profpect of the lake than even 
from Correva itfelf. This village is chiefly inhabited by 
Mahometans, whofe occupation it is to go in caravans far to 
the fouth, on the other fide of the Nile, through the feveral 
diftricts of Galla, to whom they carry beads and large 
needles, cohol, or Stibium, myrrh, coarfe cloths made in 
Begemder, and pieces of blue cotton cloths from Surat, call- 
ed Marowti. They are generally nearly a year abfent, and 
bring in return flaves, civet, wax, hides, and cardomum in 
large beautiful pods; they bring likewife a great quantity 
of ginger, but that is from farther fouth, nearer Narea. It 
appears to me to be a poor trade, as far as I could compute 
it, confidering the lofs of time employed in it, the many ac- 
cidents, extortions, and robberies thefe merchants meet with. 
Whether it would be ever worth while to follow it on an- 
other footing, and under another government, is what Iam 
not qualified enough to fay. 
On the left of Tangouri, divided from it by a plain of 
about a mile in breadth, ftands a high rock called Amba 
Mariam, with a church upon the very fummit of it. There 
is no poffibility of climbing this rock but at one place, and 
there it is very difficult and rugged; here the inhabitants 
of the neighbouring villages retreat upon any fudden alarm 
or inroad of an enemy. 
Vor, Il. ie Ay 
